Piles be damned. If I have to find home for all those books I mentioned yesterday, surely a few more are not going to make any difference? I am planning on a little (guiltless as I will be using a gift card from Christmas) splurge today. I haven't been to a bookstore (that being a new books bookstore) all month and am feeling pangs of withdrawal. I always have an idea of what I want to find when I go book shopping. Here is what I want to look for: The film adaptation for Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake, which I think looks really good, opens next month. I would love to read the book. I want to see what is in the offering for books by Colette. Arthur Japin's In Lucia's Eyes is now in paperback--a fictional tale of Casanova's first love (or conquest anyway) that I first heard about here. The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe deserves to finally be bought--how many times have I picked this up and put it back down again? I am in the mood for it, so I bet the bookstore won't have a copy on their shelves. I'd like to find The Marquise of O and Other Short Stories by Heinrich von Kleist, that Matt recommended, but I bet they won't have that either (my library owned it, but the copy was falling apart, so I couldn't check it out). I will also be on the look out for this edition of Lady Susan by Jane Austen (the next Slaves book choice). List in hand I will go, and I bet I will leave with practically none of these books. But I might luck out.
By the way, I am reading The Book Thief by Markus Zusak at the moment. Although I sometimes feel like I only acquire books, I do indeed read them, too. I had a hard time getting into it at first--but that was due to coming out of a Colette high. The author has an interesting writing style, which I wasn't sure at first if it was just going to be gimmicky, but it really does grow on you. I'll let you know how things go--with The Book Thief and the book buying excursion.